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Report: Beijing reins in Chinese journalists at Cannes
May 21, 2006, 13:41 GMT
Cannes - The Chinese government has warned its 50-strong state press contingent at the 2006 Cannes film festival not to cover sensitive subjects, especially Lou Ye's controversial film Summer Palace, the publication Screen reported Sunday.
The report in Screen's special Cannes issue cited unnamed sources who said that a number of Chinese journalists had returned home following an official communique from Beijing.
Lou's film has been at the centre of a controversy because it screened at Cannes on Thursday before being approved by China's censors at the state's Film Bureau.
Summer Palace is a love story that contains several graphic sex scenes and takes place against the background of the student rebellion of 1989.
That revolt culminated in the violent suppression of a demonstration in June of that year at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in which hundreds of demonstrators were said to have been killed.
This is not the first time the 40-year-old Shanghai-born Lou has had problems with the Film Bureau. He was previously banned from making films for two years for his 2000 movie Suzhou River, which was produced without official approval.
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